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From the twitter thread: > The way I always approached these requests was to educate the person coming with them This is a very pompous attitude.

• bluehatbrit 4y ago
  I agree on that particular line, but the rest of the thread is pretty reasonable I think. Although that said it's explained like "this is a new amazing magic formula" when really it's just qualifying the work your team takes on. Most of these questions should be asked of work that's less rushed.
• willcipriano 4y ago
  I find the attitude "You have to work on this problem right now!!!!" to be a pompous, especially if you are unable to even define what the work you want done is and it turns out it actually isn't urgent at all. What people who make requests like that want is their emotional state managed for them. They feel anxiety and often they have created the situation they are anxious about.
• hackitup7 4y ago
  For what it's worth as someone senior who is sometimes the source of the urgent request, I actually want to be educated by the team I'm bringing it to. Blind adherence to urgent asks is actually an anti-pattern (even if it's frustrating to have someone push back hard in the moment).
  • secondcoming 4y ago
    'educated', really? It's quite possible to turn down someone's request for work without 'educating' them.
    • hypesafe 4y ago
      I think secondcoming is interpreting "to educate" to mean "to be schooled / to be instructed" whereas others are interpreting "to educate" to mean "to provide information / to persuade with information". Both are viable meanings per Merriam Webster. The tone of the twitter thread led me to believe that the author was trying to convey the latter meaning which does not come across as pompous. However, if someone was to parse the earlier meaning from the thread I can see how it could be viewed as pompous.